Thought the NSA's PRISM spying program was bad? You ain't seen nothing yet. New documents leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden reveal the existence of another program, XKeyscore, which reportedly collects "nearly everything a user does on the internet."

Among other things, XKeyscore allegedly allows NSA analysts to dig up your browsing history, Facebook chats, and e-mails. The program isn't just limited to those items, however. Indeed, it seems that pretty much any HTTP activity can be probed. For example, the Guardian explains, "The XKeyscore program also allows an analyst to learn the IP addresses of every person who visits any website the analyst specifies."

As you'd expect, the amount of data involved is huge. The NSA can't store everything indefinitely, but some content can be retained for as long as five years:

The XKeyscore system is continuously collecting so much internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time. Content remains on the system for only three to five days, while metadata is stored for 30 days. One document explains: "At some sites, the amount of data we receive per day (20+ terabytes) can only be stored for as little as 24 hours."

To solve this problem, the NSA has created a multi-tiered system that allows analysts to store "interesting" content in other databases, such as one named Pinwale which can store material for up to five years.

As with PRISM, the NSA is in principle legally forbidden from using XKeyscore to target U.S. citizens without a warrant. Only foreigners and Americans who communicate with "foreign targets" are free game. The NSA told the Guardian, "XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA's lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system. . . . Every search by an NSA analyst is fully auditable, to ensure that they are proper and within the law."

However, according to the Guardian, NSA's internal documents reveal that attempts to segregate U.S. and foreign communications are "imperfect." Also, the paper adds, "[A]ll communications between Americans and someone on foreign soil are included in the same databases as foreign-to-foreign communications, making them readily searchable without warrants."

We live in a twisted world. It all looks great on the outside but there's so much filth, corruption and despair it's painful.

There's so wrong in what they do to spy on us, but if they can catch along the way pedophiles, terrorists etc we should be lucky. Everything is turned into some kinda moronic reality show, which unfortunately gets all the attention by the brainwashed people. 'The Truman Show' !

It scares me now that the US are closing their embassies abroad and advising their citizens not to travel, getting ready for another terrorist attack etc. Whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. I feel like a big bro needs to create some drama all the time.

Call me paranoid but I think Americans are ready to start another war. this all is just a preparation. someone is profiting from all of this. that's my conspiracy theory .

It scares me now that the US are closing their embassies abroad and advising their citizens not to travel, getting ready for another terrorist attack etc. Whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. I feel like a big bro needs to create some drama all the time.

Call me paranoid but I think Americans are ready to start another war. this all is just a preparation. someone is profiting from all of this. that's my conspiracy theory .

It scares me now that the US are closing their embassies abroad and advising their citizens not to travel, getting ready for another terrorist attack etc. Whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. I feel like a big bro needs to create some drama all the time.

Call me paranoid but I think Americans are ready to start another war. this all is just a preparation. someone is profiting from all of this. that's my conspiracy theory .

We are all fu*cked.

The terrorist attacks are propaganda, smoke and mirrors.

Distract, deceive, and deflect attention from the real issues at hand.

It scares me now that the US are closing their embassies abroad and advising their citizens not to travel, getting ready for another terrorist attack etc. Whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. I feel like a big bro needs to create some drama all the time.

Call me paranoid but I think Americans are ready to start another war. this all is just a preparation. someone is profiting from all of this. that's my conspiracy theory .

We are all fu*cked.

The terrorist attacks are propaganda, smoke and mirrors.

Distract, deceive, and deflect attention from the real issues at hand.

I believe so MT, it's done with controlling the media for starters.

I can get into how policies cost many people their lives and no one pays.

Drug companies hide data dentrimental to new drugs, people die. Later it's found out and they pay a fine while having already made much more than what the fine was.Though thousands have died and have been harmed no one is held accountable (gone to jail).These people make terrorists look like girl scouts.

It scares me now that the US are closing their embassies abroad and advising their citizens not to travel, getting ready for another terrorist attack etc. Whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. I feel like a big bro needs to create some drama all the time.

Call me paranoid but I think Americans are ready to start another war. this all is just a preparation. someone is profiting from all of this. that's my conspiracy theory .

We are all fu*cked.

The terrorist attacks are propaganda, smoke and mirrors.

Distract, deceive, and deflect attention from the real issues at hand.

I believe so MT, it's done with controlling the media for starters.

I can get into how policies cost many people their lives and no one pays.

Drug companies hide data dentrimental to new drugs, people die. Later it's found out and they pay a fine while having already made much more than what the fine was.Though thousands have died and have been harmed no one is held accountable (gone to jail).These people make terrorists look like girl scouts.

They are. One of my favorites is the sensationalism re: West Nile Virus.Some folks around here flip out if they see a mosquito, yet I probably get bit 100+ times a day while fishing.Wait, maybe that's what's wrong with me......

You can find search engines that are encrypted so that they don't know your actions.

But how to be sure the information isn't taken before encrypting. Those kind of search engines would attract people who have something to hide, a very nice way to narrow the field down and then track those people. Makes things easier just by saying that the data is safe. People believe anything so easily.

They got people to buy water, some bottles cost over a dollar for god's sake.The people are so trained that they think nothing of it.